Example sentences of "see [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went to see them about this but they told me it was up to the social security people to make up the difference . |
| 2 | Once they 've joined in the Pirates Club , you 'll be lucky to see them at all , as they go through their paces for the junior cabaret ( where a lot of hidden young talent come to light ) , or as they enjoy the treasure hunts and fancy dress parties . |
| 3 | ‘ Normally we do n't like people to see them at this stage . |
| 4 | According to such a theory , if we , in English , call both our mother 's brother and our father 's brother by the same term — ‘ uncle ’ — it is because these two relatives are , to us , the same ‘ kind ’ of relative , and that probably the fact that we use the one word causes us to see them in that way . |
| 5 | I am happy to see them in this workmanlike state . |
| 6 | language … gives structure to experience , and helps to determine our way of looking at things , so that it requires some intellectual effort to see them in any other way than that which our language suggests to us . |
| 7 | My hon. Friend has been to see me about this matter with a group of colleagues . |
| 8 | As he was a very busy man , I was grateful that Eliot should have been prepared to see me without any notice at all . |
| 9 | Then he said I was too innocent to realise how hard it was for him just to see me for half an hour and a kiss and cuddle . ’ |
| 10 | What I still could n't understand was why he wanted to see me at all . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've sweated blood to get him to agree to see me at all . |
| 12 | Very good of you to see me at such short notice . ’ |
| 13 | I do n't want to see Sarah in that way , and I would n't want her to see me in that kind of light either . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ And if you are too tired to write you must come to see me in any case , and then I shall know you are safe . |
| 15 | It would be very comfortable , but they 'd be surprised to see me like that at the Queen Elizabeth Hall . ’ |
| 16 | He thought to himself ‘ I do n't want him to see me like this ’ . |
| 17 | You flatter me by insisting on seeing me as some sort of Casanova figure . |
| 18 | ‘ Why do you insist on seeing me in this horrible way ? ’ she finished up . |
| 19 | And Fleischmann received a fax from Harwell and learned that they were seeing nothing at all . |
| 20 | Similarly , we could postulate some alien being capable of seeing nothing at all in the range of wavelengths we call ‘ light ’ but able to see a whole range of colours in the ultraviolet or infrared . |
| 21 | They were nearing the auto now , plunging towards it , backing away , seeing nothing but each other . |
| 22 | Growing up seeing nothing but these truly ghastly buildings , never using anything that is n't made of shoddy material , how could such children become people who would recognise and choose anything that 's beautiful ? |
| 23 | To see ourselves in this way is to gain a perspective rather than to advocate a policy , yet the relation of these two activities will inevitably remain in the background of our work . |
| 24 | Just recently I was talking to a man who had crossed the world to see someone for this very reason . |
| 25 | He had n't been so pleased to see someone in all his life . |
| 26 | I seen it before that one . |
| 27 | He had enough for his day-to-day needs , of course , but he would be hard-pressed to see himself through another month if he was to live in the style befitting a gentleman . |
| 28 | Likewise as I pointed out in the last chapter , in dramatic playing a boy may be required to adopt the function of an Abbot of Durham Cathedral , and in so far as he continues to see himself in that role he will continue to signal to others that that is what he is doing . |
| 29 | Some years before , he had founded in his home town of Stratford-upon-Avon a chapel in honour of St Thomas Becket and he was inclined to see himself in that tradition of defiance of the crown . |
| 30 | Though Old Red had looked at me so keenly , I would be prepared to swear on oath that he had not seen me at all . |